Professor Mariya Moosajee

Professor Mariya Moosajee is a highly specialised Consultant Ophthalmologist and Clinician-Scientist, with world-class expertise in Genetic Eye Disease. Professor Moosajee's combined academic and clinical training in Ophthalmology took place at University College London (UCL), Moorfields Eye Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children through the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Integrated Academic Training programme.

Professor Moosajee is a Professor of Molecular Ophthalmology at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology. In addition, they are Group Leader of Ocular Genomics and Therapeutics at the Francis Crick Institute.

Professor Moosajee achieved first-class honours for their BSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics in 2000 from Imperial College London. They then graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 2003 from Imperial College London. In 2009 they completed their PhD in Molecular Ophthalmology from Imperial College London, investigating the molecular mechanisms involved in optic fissure morphogenesis and its defective closure leading to the human disorder known as ocular coloboma. Professor Moosajee became a fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists (FRCOphth) in 2015.